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Summary

The Enjoyment of Theatre continues to bring students the expertise of a proven author team one whose strong academic credentials combine with a wealth of theatre experience to create a text that effectively conveys the importance and excitement of theatre. Both majors and non-majors will find reading this text as enjoyable as the theatre itself. Cameron and Gillespie make theatre come alive for all students in a comprehensive and accessible way. The new edition of this highly successful, audience-oriented text builds on the strong foundation of previous editions. By recognizing both educational and cultural diversity in the 1990's, the authors use their vast knowledge and deep understanding of theatre to span its 2500 plus-year history and to show students how theatre is and will continue to be relevant to their everyday lives.

Table of Contents

Preface

ix

PART I Theatre and Its Audience: Theatre Theory and Criticism

1

(78)

Theatre: Performing Art

3

(20)

Life and Theatre

4

(1)

Performance and Theatre

5

(2)

Art and Theatre

7

(3)

Theatre as Performing Art

10

(10)

Current Issues

20

(1)

Key Terms

21

(2)

Theatre: Art, Audience, and Society

23

(16)

Social Audience

24

(10)

Social Art

34

(2)

Current Issues

36

(2)

Key Terms

38

(1)

How to Read a Play

39

(20)

Preliminary Work

41

(2)

Play Analysis Using Parts of the Play

43

(11)

Organizing a Response

54

(3)

Current Issues

57

(1)

Key Terms

58

(1)

How to See a Play

59

(20)

Preliminary Work

61

(2)

Performance Analysis

63

(12)

Organizing a Response

75

(1)

Current Issues

76

(1)

Key Terms

77

(2)

PART II Today's Theatre and Its Makers: Theatre Practice

79

(140)

Making Theatre Today: The Context

81

(20)

Theatre Spaces

82

(3)

Producing Situations in the United States

85

(11)

Theatre Funding

96

(1)

Current Issues

97

(2)

Key Terms

99

(2)

The Playwright

101

(14)

The Nature of Playwrights and Playwriting

102

(1)

Creating Playwrights

103

(3)

Training Playwrights

106

(1)

From Page to Stage: Professional Issues

107

(6)

What Is Good Playwriting?

113

(1)

Current Issues

114

(1)

Key Terms

114

(1)

The Actor

115

(30)

The Nature of Acting

116

(6)

Training Actors

122

(14)

Audition, Rehearsal, and Performance

136

(4)

The Personality of the Actor

140

(2)

What Is Good Acting?

142

(1)

Current Issues

142

(2)

Key Terms

144

(1)

The Director

145

(40)

The Nature of Directing

146

(6)

The Director at Work

152

(27)

Training Directors

179

(1)

What Is Good Directing?

180

(1)

Current Issues

181

(2)

Key Terms

183

(2)

The Design Team: Scenery, Lighting, and Costumes

185

(22)

The Design Team

186

(1)

The Nature of Design

187

(5)

Designers at Work

192

(9)

Training Designers

201

(2)

What Is Good Design?

203

(2)

Current Issues

205

(1)

Key Terms

206

(1)

The Mediators

207

(12)

The Theorist

208

(3)

The Critic

211

(2)

The Dramaturg

213

(1)

The Public Relations Specialist

213

(2)

The Reviewer

215

(1)

Current Issues

216

(2)

Key Terms

218

(1)

PART III The Theatre of Other Times and Places: Theatre History

219

(210)

The Present and the Past

219

(4)

Facade Stages: Greece and Rome

223

(34)

The Uncertain Origins of Theatre

224

(3)

Shared Features of Greek and Roman Theatre

227

(1)

The Greek Theatre

228

(15)

The Roman Theatre

243

(10)

The Period in the Modern Repertory

253

(1)

Current Issues

254

(1)

Key Terms

255

(2)

Emblem and Simultaneity: Middle Ages and Golden Ages

257

(36)

Theatre in the Middle Ages

259

(15)

Theatre in the Golden Ages of England and Spain

274

(16)

The Period in the Modern Repertory

290

(1)

Current Issues

291

(1)

Key Terms

292

(1)

Illusionistic Theatres I: Neoclassicism and Italianate Staging

293

(28)

Theatre in Italy (1550--1750)

294

(10)

Theatre in France (1550--1750)

304

(8)

Theatre in England (1660--1750)

312

(5)

Theatre in America, c. 1750

317

(1)

The Period in the Modern Repertory

317

(1)

Current Issues

318

(1)

Key Terms

319

(2)

Illusionistic Theatres II: Romanticism, Commercialism, and Realism

321

(44)

Romanticism

323

(12)

Post-Romanticism: Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Theatre

335

(2)

Commercial Theatres (c. 1850--1900)

337

(3)

Realism

340

(12)

Commercial Theatre and Some Alternatives in the United States (1900--1960)